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Caminade

Everything Ebykr holds on Caminade: four articles, a Timeline of 23 dated events from 1896 to 1951 and 10 documents in the archive.

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Caminade: The Circle of Cycle

Pierre Caminade's Caminargent bicycles of the 1930s: aluminum frames with cast lugs, octagonal tubes and take-apart couplings, decades ahead of their time.

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Caminade in the Articles library

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Caminade and Caminargent Image Gallery

Caminade and the Caminargent in pictures: advertisements and press clippings, the 1936 French and 1937 English catalogs and detail shots of surviving aluminum bicycles.

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In the archive10 Caminade documents, read whole and page by page: seven advertisements, two catalogs and one posterOpen the archive

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Where Caminade is named outside its own pages: three articles and two archive documents from two publications.

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The articles that name Caminade most often first.

  1. The French Constructeurs: Singer, Herse, Routens and Their Rivals

    …Read Goëland: Soaring to Lofty Heights and Tech Specs: 1958 Goëland Randonneur. Pierre Caminade. L'Auto, February 19, 1937. Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF · Pierre Caminade (Levallois-Perret, then Bois-Colombes) took…

    HistoryNamed five times

  2. Duralumin History & Use in Bicycle Building

    …century "Barralumin" creations. Other names that come up here also include: Pierre Caminade, with his beautiful Caminargent creations and their exotic octagonal tubing, and also Gnome et Rhône, with its deep…

    HistoryNamed once

  3. Duralumin History: A Timeline of Key Alloy and Adoption Events

    …et Perrin, Haubtmann, Mercier and Aviac, the Pelissier brothers, Nicolas Barra, Pierre Caminade and Gnome et Rhône, to its late-century revival in Ateliers de la Rive's glued-aluminum Vitus 979. Every date below…

    TimelineNamed once

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